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Athenæum ¹
Saturday 29 July

My Dear Charles

I will examine the terms of the agreement as soon as I get home.

I am afraid that if you go touring about and examining buildings in course of construction you will in all cases have to make friends with the Clerk of the Works ² or in other words to make him a present. The weather today is Exceedingly hot, I have been in the B. Museum and examined for the first time the Celebrated Archæopteryx macrurus from Solenhofen ³ – Now that I have seen it, I must read Owens paper ⁴ in the Philos^l Trans^{ns 5} for 1863.

I walked thro’ the Kings Library. I was delighted by the map of Cambridge in 1574 ⁶ of which no other copy exists – Trinity College ⁷ is called Trinity Ostel, S^t Sepulchre’s Church is called S^t Pulcher’s Gonville & Caius Coll. is called Gunwell. Kings College chapel was then just as it is now. The lane between Trinity & Caius was called Findsilver lane (there must have been some remarkable instance of treasure-trove there) – It is moreover a very neat and pretty map –

Your aff^te
Father